django on IIS winserver 2016 wfastcgi handler line 791

Question

installed python 3.8.1 ,django 3.0.3 on windows server 2016 with wfastcgi and iam getting this error, cant find anything to fix it..

gave IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool read&use permissions on python installation folder but it still does not work, somehow the handler can`t read it, but as much as i know the config seems to be right. Hope you can help me. Thanks in regards.

C:\inetpub\wwwroot -> web.conf

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="Python FastCGI"
                path="*"
                verb="*"
                modules="FastCgiModule"
                scriptProcessor="c:\users\administrator\python38\python.exe|c:\users\administrator\python38\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py"
                resourceType="Unspecified"
                requireAccess="Script" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>

    <appSettings>
        <!-- Required settings --> 
        <add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="web.wsgi.application" />
        <add key="PYTHONPATH" value="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AddressLizenzbuch" />

        <!-- Optional settings -->

        <add key="DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" value="web.settings" />

    </appSettings>
</configuration>

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AddressLizenzbuch\web\blog\static -> web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <!-- Overrides the FastCGI handler to let IIS serve the static files -->
        <handlers>
            <clear/>
            <add name="StaticFile" path="*" verb="*" modules="StaticFileModule" resourceType="File" requireAccess="Read" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""
import os
import sys


def main():
    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'web.settings')
    try:
        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    except ImportError as exc:
        raise ImportError(
            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
        ) from exc
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

ERROR

Error occurred while reading WSGI handler:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\administrator\python38\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py", line 791, in main
    env, handler = read_wsgi_handler(response.physical_path)
  File "c:\users\administrator\python38\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py", line 633, in read_wsgi_handler
    handler = get_wsgi_handler(os.getenv("WSGI_HANDLER"))
  File "c:\users\administrator\python38\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py", line 603, in get_wsgi_handler
    handler = getattr(handler, name)
AttributeError: module 'web' has no attribute 'wsgi'


StdOut: 

StdErr:

Answer 1

This should be an easy fix. Your Django project is the following structure

C:/inetpub/wwwroot/AddressLizenzbuch/web/web with web.config.

The problem is the extra directory AddressLizenzbuch. REMOVE IT.

Your directory should look like C:/inetpub/wwwroot/web/web.

The problem is that wfastcgi.py is looking for C:/inetpub/wwwroot/AddressLizenzbuch/web/wsgi.py but that path obviously doesn't exist. Your config file should include this line after you remove that non-essential directory AddressLizenzbuch

<add key="PYTHONPATH" value="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web" />

To make this clear, your wsgi.py file should be located at C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web\web\wsgi.py

If you have any more questions, feel free to browse this project webproject on GitHub